Appliance for securing ladies&#39; veils.



A. BARNETT.

APPLIANCE FOR SECURING LADIES VEILS.

APPLICATION FILED MAE.27, 1911.

Patented Apr. 8, 1913.

AUGUSTA B.ABNETT, OF 'LIOl.\l'llI H )1 T, ENGLAND.

APPLIANCE FOR SECURING LADIES VEILS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Apr. 8,1913.

Application filed March 27,191 1. Serial No. 617,226.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTA BARN TT, a

subject of the King of England, residing at 36 Dunsmure road, London,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Appliancesfor Securing Ladies Veils, of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention relates to a new and improved appliance or attachment forthe purpose of securing a ladys veil upon the hat, and at the same timehas for its object to economize the quantity of material used for suchveils.

The invention consists broadly of a brooch attachment or fitting whichmay have an ornamental setting or may be enameled or otherwisedecorated. One of these appliances is used at either end of the veil.Attached to each of these fittings is one end of a piece of elastic andin the intervening space I attach a veil of any ordinary design ordescription. Attached on the underside of the fitting is a hinged,hooked pin, so made that the two ends or sides of the veil can begathered and when they have been so gathered the hooked pin is caught upand is retained in position by a catch fixed to the underside of theframe.

In operation the wearer holds one of the attachments in each hand,stretches the supporting elastic holding the veil, and then hooks thebrooches into the material of the hat in such a way that the veil issecurely held by its upper edge to the front portion of the hat, whileits lower part is more or less stretched and drawn around the chin ofthe wearer. And in'order that my said invention may be betterunderstood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference tothe drawing accompanying this specification, which shows by way ofexample various forms of the devices made according to my presentinvention.

Figure 1 shows a view of the device attached in position; Fig. 2 shows aveil and device detached from the hat illustrating the method ofattaching the veil and gathering it; and Figs. 3 and 4 show thepreferred and a modified form of the pin and hook construction.

The same letters of reference are employed to denote the same parts inall the views.

a is a brooch of ornamental design.

6 is the pin which as will be seen is of special form, hinged at c tothe brooch by means of the usual hinge.

d is the catch for securing the brooch pin 6 in the ordinary manner. Thepin 1) is eX- tended past the hinge and formed into an eye 0. The otherend of the pin 6 is bent backward so as to form a hook f. g is anelastic cord extending between the eyes 6 on the two devices, which cordis threaded or run through the veil. The veil is so gathered to thiscord that when the latter is slack the veil is gathered upslightly. In

utilizing the invention two of these devices are taken and the elasticcord 9 is attached to one of the devices. The cord is then run throughthe veil for which purpose a bodkin may be provided on the cord, theveil being gathered as before explained. The bodkin end of the cord isthen passed through the eyelet e on the other device and is secured inposition by turning, tying or'otherwise. The sides of the veil are nowgathered up and passed on to the hooks f and around to the pin portion6, and the pins are then engaged in the catches d in the ordinary way.This po-.

sition is illustrated at the left hand of Fig. 2; the right hand sideshows the brooch open with the material passed on to the pin 6. The veilis now ready to be attached to the hat for which purpose it is simplynecessary to take one of'the broches in each hand, stretch the elasticaround the front of the hat and engage the hooks f in the material ofthe hat.

It will be seen from Fig. 1 that the arrangement possesses manyadvantages. In the first place there is considerable saving of materialas it is not necessary to have so much veiling as is required to tie theveil at the back. Again, the top edge of the veil is held in position onthe hat without there being a tendency for it to slip down over the hatas is usually the case, and again the portion of the veil coming underthe chin is comparatively tight which prevents it sagging, although theportion of the veil coming over the nose and across the face is notpulled tight.

Figs. 3 and 4 show two forms of making the pin 6, the eye 6 and hook ffrom one piece of wire with a portion of the pin 7) bent to form onehalf of the hinge.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesof America 1s A device for attaching a veil to a hat comprising abrooch, a pin constructed with two eyelets, and a hook at one end; saidpin pivotally secured to the brooch by one of said eyeletsand the othereyelet thereof project- Ling beyond said pivot, said projecting eyeletadapted to hold one end of a veil supporting cord: a catch on the broochfor securing the pin; said pin adapted to have portions of the edge of aveil gathered thereon between GUSSIE BARNETT. Witnesses C. P. LIDDON, H.D. JAMEsoN.

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